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Letters Patent No. 105,842, dated July 26, 1870.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE:

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama To all twhom 'it maj/ concern H Beit known that), DANIEL B. POND, of Woon socket,in the county of Providence and State of' Rhode Island, have invented a new and valuable Improvement-in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same,

ysists in the construction and novel arrangement of a rotating cylinder, iined with longitudinal bars, and having within it an epicycloidal cylinder'of bars,`connected, by means ofelastic arms, tojanaxial roller, arranged to be secured in any desired position within the external cylinder. l,

'lhe letter A of theV drawing designates the cylindrical case, lined, throughout its circular wall, withv straight rods a, running from end to end.

At one end of the cylinder-'is a crank, b, secured to the end of the journal c, which is fastened to the head of the cylinder by means of a circular Hauch.

The other end of the cylinder` has an open metal` bearing, e, through which passes a circular pivot, d, provided with a anch, j, and friction-plate g, arranged to clasp the head of the standard niixing it 'in any desired position. j v

Within thecylinder is a roller, B, pivoted to` the lradial arms it it, of which one is adapted to revolve freely about the journal e', while the other is rigidly attached to the end of the adjustable pivot d. It is therefore -nesses evident that the roller B may remain in a fixed position 'while the cylinder A is rotating, or both may rotate at the same time.

`1) represents the operatingtrundle, consisting of rings m m, connected bya series of straight bars', 'a n, having their. exterior surfaces semicircular in section.

. Elastic bands z z connect the trundle to the roller B, arranged centrally with reference thereto. i

An opening is made in the curved wall lof' the cylinder A for thc introduction of t-he clothes or goods to be cleansed. This opening is closed by meansl oi' the water-tight cover lv, provided with a lining of bars y to correspond with the remainder ofthe cylinder.

The goods, having been introduced into the cylin der, are quickly brought between the bars ofthe cylinder, and those of the epicycloidal trundle, and the cleansing is thus effected.

The elastica-rms permit theintroduction of .a small I or large quantity of goods, as the trundle is capable of movement in the direction of the cent-er of the cylinder, until the rings touch the' roller within it.

What Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure In combination with the rotating barred cylinder A, the epicycloidal trundle B,I attached, by elastic bands, l

to an axial roller, supported by the adjustable arms k k, as specified. i

`In testimony that-I claim the above I have hereunto subscribedAnny-namcin the presence of two wit- DANIEL n. POND.

Witnesses:

' GEORGE A. WiLBUn; HARVEY HOLMES.- 

